Dependency and Social Inequality in Pre-Roman Italy

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Dependency and Social Inequality in Pre-Roman Italy

Edited by: Martin Bentz and Patrick Zeidler

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2024

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In the past, most studies on Pre-Roman societies in Italy (1^st millennium BCE) focused on the elites, their representation and cultural contacts. The aim of this volume is to look at dependent and marginalized social groups, which are less visible and often even difficult to define (slaves, servants, freedmen, captives, ‚foreigners‘, athletes, women, children etc.). The methodological challenges connected to the study of such heterogeneous and scattered sources are addressed. Is the evidence representative enough for defining different forms of dependencies? Can we rely on written and pictorial sources or do they only reflect Greek and Roman views and iconographic conventions? Which social groups can’t be traced in the literary and archaeological record? For the investigation of this topic, we combined historical and epigraphical studies (Greek and Roman literary sources, Etruscan inscriptions) with material culture studies (images, sanctuaries, necropoleis) including anthropological and bioarchaeological methods. These new insights open a new chapter in the study of dependency and social inequality in the societies of Pre-Roman Italy.

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Martin Bentz and Patrick Zeidler, University of Bonn, Germany.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Contents Open Access Download PDF	V
Introduction Martin Bentz and Patrick Zeidler Open Access Download PDF	1
I Historical and Epigraphical Sources
The Etruscans – a Society of Masters and Servants? A Modern Topos and its Origins Petra Amann Open Access Download PDF	15
Slaves, Freedpeople and Non-Citizens in the Etruscan World: Evidence from Epigraphy Enrico Benelli Open Access Download PDF	49
II The Iconography of Dependency in Visual Art
Dependencies and Inequalities in Etruscan Funerary Painting Cornelia Weber-Lehmann Open Access Download PDF	69
(Not Only) Defeated and Enslaved. The Iconography of Captives in Etruscan Art and their Ambivalent Meaning Patrick Zeidler Open Access Download PDF	89
III Dependencies and Status Differences in Urban and Sacral Spaces
Plebeian Rituals and Peasant Cults? Religious Transformations in Etruria during the Sixth and Early Fifth Centuries BCE and their Socio- Political Context Robinson Peter Krämer Open Access Download PDF	121
De-Monumentalisation and Disempowerment of the Chiefly House in Late Archaic Monte Iato (Western Sicily, 460/50 BCE) Erich Kistler Open Access Download PDF	157
Natural Disaster, Climate Change, and Marginalized Social Agents in Pre-Roman Italy: Case Studies from Veneto and Puglia Elisa Perego and Rafael Scopacasa Open Access Download PDF	195
IV Dependencies, Status Differences and Funerary Archaeology
Dependency and Social Inequality in Central Italy (Osteria dell’Osa, 950–580 BC) Francesca Fulminante Open Access Download PDF	217
The Negotiation of Social Hierarchies in a Mountain Community of Pre-Roman Samnium, Central Italy Rafael Scopacasa Open Access Download PDF	255
Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Etruscan Sarcophagi as an Expression of Social Differences and Hierarchies within a Gens Laura Nazim Open Access Download PDF	273
Herdsmen into Warriors. An Overview on Pastoralism and War in Ancient Central Italy Massimiliano Di Fazio Open Access Download PDF	297
Age and Class Discrimination in Etruscan Necropoleis? Some Evidence from Cerveteri Marina Micozzi Open Access Download PDF	315
Ultimus inter pares. Inequality within the Italic Communities in Romagna (Italy) between the Sixth and Fifth Centuries BC Claudio Negrini Open Access Download PDF	345
The Greek Colonies of Sicily During the First Millennium BCE: Status of Health as an Indicator of Social Inequality Mauro Rubini Open Access Download PDF	369
Valentina Caruso The Fettered Man from Populonia, Centro Velico Giorgio Baratti, Cristina Cattaneo, Martina Sciortino, Laura Magnano, Mirko Mattia and Valentina Caruso Open Access Download PDF	381
Notes on Contributors Open Access Download PDF	401

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October 21, 2024

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402

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65

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18

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111558417

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Slavery; dependency; etruria; funerary achaeology; iconography

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historians, archaeologists, anthropologists

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